1981 (thing)

In other news:

• The United States budget deficit reaches one trillion dollars
• An Israeli raid destroys an Iraqi nuclear reactor
• Advent of the 32-bit CPU
• Serial murders of 18 black youths in Atlanta
• Apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary reported in Medugorje, Yugoslavia
• Jack Sutton, the Yorkshire Ripper, sentenced to life
• French TGV "bullet-train" inaugurated
• Wayne B. Williams arrested for the 28 victims in the Atlanta murders, but (unpublicized at the time) there were 38 more murders (all females)
• 111 die in the collapse of a Kansas City hotel lobby
• South African incursion into Angola kills 240
• Iranians execute 149 leftists
• Israeli attacks on PLO kill 123
• Bomb in PLO office kills 50
• Bomb in Syria kills 64
• Bombing in Tehran kills 72
• Riots across England
• Fighting around Beirut continues
• Quake near Naples kills 2916